APOD: Mars at the Moon's Edge (2020 Aug 15)

[BDanielMayfield]

Quite right! I was on Apollo 17, and the radio guys at the next console were radio astronomers who were WOWED at the radio silence every time we went behind the Moon. (They were probing the moons surface with radio waves).

The retired professor who modestly calls himself “heehaw” has just dropped a major clue as to his real identity. He worked at NASA’s Houston mission control during part of the Apollo program!

Or as he says, he, "was ON Apollo 17" as in "ON"?

Yeah, I did a double take when first reading his post too. But there couldn't have been "radio guys at the next console" either inside the cramped craft or even more wackily, ON its exterior.